Page load speed analysis

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We analyzed Basket.lv page load time and found that the first response time was 692 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Page optimization

HTML

144.1 kB

Images

707.2 kB

Javascripts

1.7 MB

CSS

942.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Basket.lv main page is 3.4 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

Original144.1 kB

After minification139.6 kB

After compression21.7 kB

HTML optimization

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 122.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Original707.2 kB

After optimization659.0 kB

Image optimization

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Basket images are well optimized though.

Original1.7 MB

After minification1.5 MB

After compression457.0 kB

JavaScript optimization

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 72% of the original size.

Original942.5 kB

After minification848.3 kB

After compression131.6 kB

CSS optimization

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Basket.lv needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 810.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Our browser made a total of 195 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Basket.lv, 11% (22 requests) were made to Live.fibaeurope.com and 7% (14 requests) were made to Ifrype.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source G1.delphi.lv.

Additional info on basket.lv

Requests

The browser has sent 190 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Basket. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 45 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

45

Javascripts

118

Images

12

CSS

15

AJAX

190

All

Possible request optimization

1

Javascripts

83

Images

1

CSS

15

AJAX

90

Optimized

100

All

Normal result

IP address

Basket.lv uses IP address which is currently shared with 4 other domains. The more sites share the same IP address, the higher the host server’s workload is. It is strongly recommended that the host server should be changed or the hosting provider should be requested to give a different (separate) IP address for this domain.

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Basket.lv can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Latvian/Lettish is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Basket.lv main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Basket.lv has no SSL certificate. Web browsing can be safer with HTTPS connection, so we suggest that it should be obtained for this site.

Normal result

Visitor World Map

Country of origin for 64.4% of all visits is Latvia. It’s good for Basket.lv that their server is also located in Latvia, as that enables the majority of their visitors to benefit from a much faster page load time.

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Basket. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: